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[from 'The Flow of Time' by Huw Price, in 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow ]

Full Idea

If the world comes equipped with a time orientation, where does it come from? If it doesn't, what explains our psychological feeling of a direction for time?

Gist of Idea

We must explain either the existence of a time direction, or our psychological sense of it

Source

Huw Price (The Flow of Time [2011], 3.5)

Book Reference

'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time', ed/tr. Callender,Craig [OUP 2013], p.286


A Reaction

The chances of 'explaining' either one look slim to me. That is, the fact would explain our experience, but the experience without the fact looks ridiculous, and I cannot conceive of any time-free entity which could explain the fact.